Mum came a narrow second in Leeds.

Two former housemates stood as 'paper candidates' for the Green party in Cambridge. Cat got 187 votes in Arbury (pushing the "English Democrats" candidate into 4th place). In Romsey, Keith came 5th of 5 with 189 votes in the city seat; but in the County Council by-election for the same ward, came 4th with 287, beating the Left List candidate. However, the Green party finally got their first Cambridge city council seat, which is presumably cause for much celebration. Elsewhere in Cambridge, the LibDems lost a seat to a "Labour and Co-operative Party" candidate, and Labour lost a seat to the Conservatives.

In my own ward of Castle, the ex-LibDem Independent councillor retained his seat. Personally, I found each piece of his literature strengthening my resolve to go vote LibDem instead, but 850 of my neighbours disagreed. I do have to admire him for managing to get out I think 5 pieces of paper through our door - the local LibDems did not manage so much.and ought to have a bigger team of volunteers. Mind you, they didn't ask me (not that I could have done much really). I feel a bit politically disengaged at the moment, with more than enough to keep me busy.

I spotted the name of a colleague of mine in the results list and confirmed it was him by finding his photo on the local Labour website. It caused a bit of chat in the office, anyway.